Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 126
“Yes, it is the estate of a very rich family, the head of which, Yeng-Yen-Sa, is dead.
Who acts: owner, estate · What happens: be · To what, where: estate
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner, estate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 estate | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 estate | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 estate | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 estate | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 estate | det |
| 7 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 family | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 rich | advmod |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 family | amod |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 estate | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 estate | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 head | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yeng | punct |
| 19 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 estate | appos |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Yen | punct |
| 21 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yeng | conj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sa | punct |
| 23 | Sa | Sa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yeng | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 estate | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dead | cop |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | owner | the estate and the head of the estate and the head of the estate | of a rich family; the head of the estate and the head of the estate and the head conj; Yeng and Yen and Sa appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the estate and the head of the estate and the head of the estate | dead property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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